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by toss1 2y ago
>>Of course there would need to be provisions that it not be abused ... And the rules against abuse need to be solid, ... Exactly that sort of scenario is why I included those phrases. ANY large system will have imperfections, inadve
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by toss1 2y ago
>>That is precisely how it is measured: by measuring wages. Again, NO . Just go to the Bureau Of Labor Statistics and their description of how productivity is measured [0]: >>"For a single business producing only one good,
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by toss1 2y ago
Of course, a marketing line to fit the current situation (and curry favor with the current vindictive administration) is easily added/updated at press time. This does not mean the making of the deals and building the factory had anythi
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by toss1 2y ago
>...of what quality? There are standards for virtually everything. Meet the current basic standards. For food, a basket of FDA/USDA-approved for distribution food to make a basic but nutritious diet for the family of 4. For housing
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by toss1 2y ago
I would say yes, it is reasonable to have an exception for lower wages for teenage part-time entry-level workers, and maybe some partially-disabled workers. Of course there would need to be provisions that it not be abused and just used for
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by toss1 2y ago
>>There is no such thing as what minimum wage should be "fairly" Nonsense. There most definitely IS a definition of a fair minimum wage -- it is the definition used when it was originally introduced into law: The wage nece
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by toss1 2y ago
>>Productivity growth is literally just wage growth, by definition. No, it is the opposite, whether you are measuring Units Per Worker Hour or especially Units Per Worker Dollar. You have a dozen $25/hr workers in a factory produ
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by toss1 2y ago
Ironically, all of this was already implemented 30+ years ago — local storage, local code providing UI and data manipulation, seldom-connected model for dial-up or Internet, automated replication & conflict resolution with servers, DOD-
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by toss1 2y ago
Relevant is one of the most quoted lines from Bruce Lee: "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." Gaining real mastery of fewer tools yields exceptional
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by toss1 2y ago
Yup, I think experience and new tools & techniques will have battery fires as controllable as gasoline fires relatively soon. I'm pretty sure the racetrack issue was related to the garages. The pretty much standard rule I've s
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by toss1 2y ago
Yes, except ICE fires are a lot easier to put out (possibly partly because of long experience developing tools & techniques vs for electric fires). Electric cars were also banned at most racetracks for years (not sure if that is stil
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by toss1 2y ago
Yes, mil tech has diverged, and much of modern manufacturing requires highly specialized tooling that requires long lead times to get into production. That is an excellent reason to subsidize maintaining convertible or dual-use tech in the
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by toss1 2y ago
Good points, although a nit that I'd characterize the workforce as more specialized today rather than less. Didn't the old-school machinists have more knowledge over the full range of production processes, vs a CAD drafter vs a Fa
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by toss1 2y ago
>>Feels a bit like saying that subsidising personal cars is good for the tank business. Funny you should say that. The US had in 1938 a grand total of about 38 tanks. WWII started a few years later, and after converting prewar automob
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by toss1 2y ago
Need the jail time and a safe harbor if the behavior is fully disclosed in advance with all advertising (a simple phrase will do such as: "Useful life limited to ~10 years, details at xyz") Some people might be fine with a product
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by toss1 2y ago
Near the end of the article, the cause is described: >>Elon Musk shared a post on his social network stating that Slim could have ties to criminal groups, and five minutes later, Carlos Slim canceled all business collaborations with S
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Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink(mexicodailypost.com)
234 points by toss1 2y ago|238 comments
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by toss1 2y ago
Because while capitalism and "free markets" are excellent for solving some problems such as dynamic resource allocation, they are not only terrible at solving other problems, they actively make them worse. Start with any issue rel
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by toss1 2y ago
YES >>5% accuracy can be worth a lot. Most surprising to me about these results is the BEST error rate was over 8% errors (91.7% accuracy) and the worse was 40%. Their method of calculating errors seems quite good: >> Accuracy
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by toss1 2y ago
Sure, but they don't want transactions YOU/WE can reverse... We all want: "Reversing for me, but not for thee"
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by toss1 2y ago
The version I've found most useful is "UOD", as in "Unless Otherwise Directed..." As in "Unless Otherwise Directed, I'll be updating the Foo project next week to include the Bar modules..." or "U
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by toss1 2y ago
>>negative anticipation Seriously? Please read just a little bit of history and civics, and stop making false equivalences. These moves are straight out of the bog-standard authoritarian playbook. Under well-functioning democracies,
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by toss1 2y ago
The problem is, the refactoring being done is optimizing for 1) destroying the capability of any agency that was potentially impeding Musk's companies e.g., by investigating illegal activities, 2) implementing cultural war measures to
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by toss1 2y ago
But, when you REALLY want reversibility is when the transaction is done without your consent — when stuff is stolen and you want it back. Thieves will not tend to consent to reversible transactions.
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by toss1 2y ago
Good information, and I see no sign it has been noticed in the US (which is why your report is good info). The first question is how broad is this shift; is it really everywhere on the street or just in the "early adopters"? The n
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WhatsApp, Signal Sign letter against UK privacy bill, say they will not comply (2023)(cnet.com)
77 points by toss1 2y ago|18 comments
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by toss1 2y ago
Hmm. Although I've never read that tome, it would not surprise me to find he expresses similar strategies. It's really just the Imperialist Autocrats' standard playbook, and it is little different from the schoolyard bully —
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by toss1 2y ago
No, there is a VAST menu of effective retaliation or response measures. The response absolutely does NOT need to be exactly in kind or 1:1. The key is that the measure must cost the aggressor more than they gain, and of course be reaso
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by toss1 2y ago
It does NOT give them reason It may give them pretext But when they want to escalate, any convenient pretext they can fabricate will be spewed out Appeasement ONLY encourages aggressors. They can ignore any statements and rhetoric and corre
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by toss1 2y ago
>>"We're always looking for ways to improve our customer service experience. ..." That is a load of absolute bullocks. Even if we give HP the benefit of the doubt and grant that they genuinely thought the "digital

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